Let's Help More Than 100 Children with Cancer

We are happy to provide the GlobalGiving community with our report on Fund’s activities of March, April and May of 2014.

Our Fund continued providing financial support to families with children that have been diagnosed with oncological diseases. During the last three months, the Fund provided monthly and non-recurring charity of 40,500.00 Lt to such families. The families used this money to purchase necessary medical care supplies, and were able to cover traveling expenses and other costs that they could not have avoided due to their child’s disease.

Following the request of an oncologist of Kaunas Clinics (University of Health Sciences of Lithuania), in order to continue the effective cancer treatment by the medicine Temozolomide, the Fund purchased 4 quantities of Temozolomide Teva 100 mg N5 for one young cancer patient with a brain tumor. The total cost of the medicine was 1,560.68 Lt.

The Fund also purchased 2 quantities of medicine Topotecan Teva 1 mg/ml N5 (total cost – 1,713.94 Lt) and 3 quantities of medicine Temozolomide Teva 100 mg N 5 (total cost – 1,199.25 Lt) for a young girl with a relapse of Ewing sarcoma.

Fund Rugute also purchased a portable electric phlegm suction machine for the Oncohematology Unit of Kaunas Clinics (University of Health Sciences of Lithuania). The cost of the machine was 3,993.00 Lt.

For the past three months, Rugute was also able to continue covering the maintenance costs of Rugute’s Home, the only facility in Lithuania that provides temporary accommodation to the young cancer patients and their family members, free of charge. This facility is a shelter for the families that live far away from the hospital, and is especially appreciated by the young cancer patients for its cozy and playful home environment.

On the 31^st of May, Fund Rugute and the public entity Nacionalinis kraujo centras organized the 12^th voluntary blood drive Share a Droplet, and invited everybody to donate blood for the sick children. 34 donors donated their blood in the cozy atmosphere of Rugute’s Home. 

Impressions of Zivile, our first-time blood donor: I am happy to have experienced my first blood donation at Rugute’s Home. The ambience was full of mutual kindness and that was my major encouragement whenever I felt a bit scared. I received lots of wonderful care that made the whole procedure pass like one short and pleasant moment. I am sure that I will come back to donate more blood, because it felt good to do a good deed.

Childhood Cancer Fund Rugute wishes to give the most sincere thanks to all of the donors on GlobalGiving who have been putting their efforts into making life easier for the Lithuanian children with oncological diseases. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.